A Beautiful Mistake [ S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV) Fanfic)

Chapter 2: Kitten Caught

A/N: WIEEEEEEEE An updateeee :3  sorry it took long but here it is ! Huge thanks to my Unnie @shaenanigans for betaing xD and the story's new cover loveeeeeeee you~ 

Additional note: This was beta-read...xoxo Enjoyyyy

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When Bai Yutong planted several fake sightings of his operations four districts over, he allowed himself enough breathing room to not think of the intricacies of the business, making a conscious effort to put all his focus and attention to commemorating his parents' and betrothed’s death anniversary.

The time of the year always took a toll on his mental and emotional state no matter how many decades have passed. Bai Yutong needed to make sure that when he visited their final resting place, the police would not be kicking doors down uninvited. He refused to be held responsible for any lives meeting an abrupt end if they pissed him off enough by ruining the memorial.

Bai Yutong was many things, a thief first and foremost, but he's not a killer. Although his losses taught him to play dirty, to build an empire that can provide a steady flow of cash in his quest for justice to the murders of the most important people in his life, motivating him to never let the cruelty of his past push him into a pit of despair, the experiences also instilled in him a loathing of violence as an easy solution. To protect himself and those he loves, he will use lethal force when he must, but he'll never take any pleasure in it, especially when he knew from personal experience the disastrous effects violence could cause in a person's life.

In the tender age of eight, he'd not only lost his parents and in-laws, but had also lost his best friend, his omega, Zhan Yao, in a bloody massacre that became just another one of the cold cases that the authorities were too inept to solve. The loss of his mother and father hurt, but there was nothing as excruciating as a severed mate bond. Zhan Yao and he had been too young for mating bite marks, but Zhan Yao was already his on a cellular level. They were born only a year apart on the same day, the Bai and Zhan families blessed with an alpha and omega pair for children to continue the family line; already belonged to each other and loved each other even before their secondary genders presented. They did everything together, always a united front against the adults, and had always been in each other's lives. Until they weren't.

Twenty one years later and Yutong could still remember the exact moment he felt him die.

Yutong did not need the police and their inane attempts of arresting him to further disrupt his mood. The day was almost over and he just wanted to spend another night in the silence of his home with a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc that he kept for such bleak occasion. Yangyang, his adopted son, has been sent to stay with his second cousin, Xiao Chi. Yutong didn't trust himself to be around the recently presented alpha male six-year old when his son's alpha temperament could clash with his. Yutong would rather be alone in his grief and anger as he tried to erase the bitter memories of a past he's always trying to forget but never could.

The last thing Bai Yutong expected to happen so late at night was to run across the HongKong Police Force One-Time Consultant, Professor Ji Xaobing. That the man turned out to be a distressed omega in need definitely came as a surprise. With the thoughts of his own late omega taking front and center stage in his still mourning heart and mind, Yutong's alpha instincts easily went haywire. The rich and ripe scent of the omega's oncoming heat only exacerbated the rush of protectiveness in his veins.

And so here Bai Yutong sits on the driver's seat, white knuckling the steering wheel as his instincts threaten to overtake. The crimson glint of his pupils is damning. He's never been triggered to a rut before, and he both despises and finds exhilaration at the possibilities it brings.